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Hristo Vitchev / Weber Iago: Heartmony
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist Hristo Vitchev is a musician of a rare type: one who makes music composition sound easy. As evidenced by his intricately complex The Perperikon Suite (First Orbit Sounds, 2011), it isn't as easy as it seems. On Heartmony, Vitchev teams with his regular collaborator, pianist Weber Iago, for a suite of duets that are as ...
Giovanni Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait
by C. Michael Bailey
Giovanni Pessi, Susanna Wallumrod, Marco Ambrosini, Jane AchtmanIf Grief Could WaitECM2012 Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music label (aka ECM) has three creative foci: “classical" music, jazz and folk music. The last of these is often overlooked in discussions of ECM, but folk music, particularly that of ...
Kate Reid: The Love I’m In
by C. Michael Bailey
Dr. Kate Reid is a faculty member of the Fine Arts department of Cypress College in Southern California. However, Reid is no stuffed shirt, ivory tower type. No, she is a living, breathing, practicing jazz singer, one who holds on to tradition loosely, having fun with the music she performs. She belongs to that treasured group ...
Tommy Igoe and the Birdland Big Band: Eleven
by C. Michael Bailey
Like many other corners in that amorphous room called jazz, big band jazz has grown more abstract and experimental since its heyday in the 1930s. This process is necessary for the creative evolution of the art, but often produces music that is as unlistenable as it is creative--or brilliant. Abstract growth may be considered horizontal evolution, ...
Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Upper West Side
by C. Michael Bailey
Wherever tenor saxophonist Harry Allen shows up, there is sure to be a major outbreak of Old School. Along with Scott Hamilton, Allen is a keeper of the flame encompassing saxophone practice from Frankie Trumbauer to Lester Young. Pianist Ehud Asherie is cut from the same bolt as Ralph Sutton and Dick Hyman. His previous Posi-Tone ...
Johnathan Blake: The Eleventh Hour
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz violinist John Blake, Jr.'s son, drummer Johnathan Blake, makes his debut on Sunnyside Records with The Eleventh Hour. While the leader, this recording does not have any of the hallmarks of a drummer-led date. Blake is careful not to crowd his band, making his mark as solid understatement, a seasoning that imparts just the right ...
Triosence with Sara Gazarek: Where Time Stands Still
by C. Michael Bailey
Triosence is a piano trio active on the European jazz stage since making a name for itself in its native Germany in 1999. On When Time Stands Still, the band joins forces with West Coast jazz vocalist Sara Gazarek for a recital of twelve original tunes. The music is mostly penned by Triosence pianist Bernhard Schüler, ...
Vito Di Modugno: East Side
by C. Michael Bailey
Italian organist Vito Di Modugno has made a solid name for himself with several well-received Red Records releases that include, Organ Trio Plus Guests (2007), Organ Grooves (2008), Organ Trio, Volume 2 (2009), and now the delightfully swinging East Side. Di Modugno is first among a progressive group of B3 specialists who are charging mainstream jazz ...
George Friedrich Handel: Die Acht Grossen Suiten
by C. Michael Bailey
Lisa SmirnovaDie Acht Grossen SuitenECM Records2012 In late 1720, Saxon cum British composer/impresario George Friedrich Handel was having an intellectual property problem. In the middle of his efforts to begin the new opera season at King's Theater in Haymarket, London, he discovered that one Jeanne Roger was planning ...
Skip Heller: Foolish Me
by C. Michael Bailey
Fred “Skip" Heller is a hip musical polymath from Philadelphia, living on the West Coast, where he burns through musical styles like there is no definition. He has a major, and unapologetic, jones for John Hartford and Roger Miller and an encyclopedic knowledge of American music, of which he continues to be a student, teacher, shaman. ...
